Steps - A portal into 1950s New York City, Frank O’Hara’s “Lunch Poems” have the feel of playing hooky: of roaming from museums to Central Park and sneaking into cinemas. Choreographer Mark Morris, poets Terrance Hayes, Robert Pinsky, Todd Colby, and Eileen Myles, and musical duo Rachael and Vilray join host Elisa New to read “Steps,” O’Hara’s ode to NYC art and dance.
Play hooky with Frank O’Hara’s “Lunch Poems.” Poets and NYC-lovers join host Elisa New.
Poet Martín Espada worked manufacturing legal pads, and the job is burned into his memory.
Murray Bartlett, Laurie Santos, and more guests join Elisa New to read Wallace Stevens.
Drive through West Texas with Tracy K. Smith, Jimmie Dale Gilmore and host Elisa New.
David Axelrod, Bill Kristol and Andrea Mitchell read Robert Lowell with Elisa New.
Consider the poetics, and politics, of fungi with poems by Sylvia Plath and Kay Ryan.
Read the elegiac poetry of Joseph Brodsky, a Cold War Russian exile, with host Elisa New.
Poems by Wheatley with Amanda Gorman, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Richard Blanco, and more.
Poetry in America explores the diversity of American poetry. In each episode, members of various American communities join host Elisa New, following Gwendolyn Brooks to the South Side of Chicago, Alberto Ríos to the Sonoran Desert, Richard Blanco to Marco Island, and more. Joining along the way are singers and Supreme Court justices, playwrights and physicists, and teachers and their students.
